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The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
PRESIDENT TAYLOR.
A Few Amusing Anecdotes Related b.
 Ben: Perley POOre.

Few Amusing Anecdotes Related by
 Ben: Perley POOre.
 President Taylor was probably the Inly President to whom the Presidency was an uncoveted and unsought-for boon. Mrs. Taylor was so averse to public life that it is said she prayed every night during his candidacy for his defeat, and when told of his elec- ton, said: "Why could they not let us aloneP we are so happy here. Why do they want to drag us to Washing tonP" Who that ever saw General Taylor at a levee could forget him? He grasped every new conner cordially by the hand, and saluted all, high and low, old maids. brides, young girls, all. with the words, Glad to see you! Glad to see you! How's your family? Hope the children are all we'll. His greeting was almost equal to Rips toast: Here's to you and your family. May you live long and prosperF He hardly ever opened his mouth with out making a mistake, and people laughed heartily. Still they loved him. trusted his judgment and knew his heart and hand were true as steel; and when he died the whole nation was a mourner at his grave. When Major Donelson returned from Europe he in- troduced him at a dinner party as: My friend Donelson, just from Ber- lin. Austria" During his candidacy Colonel w., State elector, after dis cussing several public topics. asked him what were his views on the tariff. ''The what, JackP' said General Tay- Tor, who stuttered dreadfully. 1.-The tariff, General" said Colonel W. "Why! what's that?" '1t's sine qua non," said Colonel w., who was one of the greatest wags that ever lived, ''that the people are much excited about now" "A sine qua noR." said General Taylor. slowly. Il believe. Jack, saw one in Mexico. but forget what it looks like; and I'll be blamed if have any views on the tariff. "- Ben: PsrIey Poore, ig Boston Budget,
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
OWLS FOR THE MARKET.
The Unique Industry Carried on by a New
 Jersey Farmer.


 Jersey Farmer.
 Farmer David B. Dickinson. who lives on the banks of the Passaic river, is probably the only man in this coun- try who breeds owls for the market. Mir. Dickinson is widely known as a skilful taxidermist, and when not follow ing the.plow, riding mower, or attend ing to other farm work, he is either ranging the woodS in search of birds or is engaged in his workshop in mounting specimens. The demand for owls is always large and the sup ply short.
 MT. Dickinson is naturalists and student of the habits of every bird common to New Jersey. He conclud- ed several years ago that owls needed encouragement to nest on his place, and consequently he made arrange ments to encourage them by provid- ing them with snug quarters. Finding a hollow limb of tree, he cut it up into short pieces. and closed each of the cylinders with rough bark. and made neat round hole in one side of each cylinder Seven of these rus tic bird houses were firmly fixed in the crotches of trees near the river bank, and during the ensuing spring four of the seven were occupied by owls and their broods. In the following year six of the seven houses were en- gagged early in the spring, and MT. Dickinson put up five more houses. This spring he had eleven broods of young owls, and when the writer re- gently visited the farm, Mir. Dickinson had half dozen young owls perching on the beams of wagon-shed.
 It was feeding time, and taking a piece of raw beef MT. Dickinson en- tered the shed and began to cut the meat into shreds, using a heavy knife on the chopping block. At the first stroke of the knife all the owlets fluttered down to the block, and he had to exercise caution to prevent cut ting off their toes as they scrambled for the raw meat All of these owls are doomed to take natural attitudes on short branches of gumwood, with wire vertebre and yellow glass eyes. He has orders for owls at all seasons of the year and likes to be prepared for them. Sometimes he stuffS them while they are balls of down, but usually he waits until they are in full plumage. r. Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
STRANGE SEA TERMS.
Some Sailors Expressions That Are Az
 to Puzzle Landsman.

Some Sailors Expressions That Are Apt
 to Puzzle a Landsman.
 Landsmen, who meet each other at so many points of contact, use narrow and technical vocabularies only as nec- essary to their separate trades or pro fessions; but thieves, who, dwelling in the midst of society, and yet not of it, communicate with one another in a peculiar patOiS, and so sailors, living far from their fellows and far from the language holders, have formed their own vocabulary of common life, vo- cabulary that bears the imprint of Jacks well known fancy and supersi- ton. Lieutenant Bassett, U. S. N, discusses some shipboard terms and their derivation.
 The sloop, or shallop, he says. de- rived its name from German schlep- pen, to tow; barge is from the gorge- ous Egyptian craft "baris;" the schoon- CT, an American invention, gets its name from "schooning" or skipping over the water. The "brig" and "brigantine" were favorites of the "brig ans," pirates of the fourteenth century,; the frigate is descendant of the Italian fragata, or open-decked vessel (Greek aphracta, without a cover). Once aboard, we pass by the gang-way, or "going-way, to the fore-castle. reminder of the days winch archers and singers thronged the castle on the prov. The ''head" of the ship is here, and here we may identify her nose, eyes. beak and cap. The French sailors call the fore stay sail the little cutter" because it cuts the wind as the ship goes about. Yonder is a protruding spar, the pumpkin" or little boom. The ''cat' is a broad beamed sail-boat with no jib. a Norwegian vessel, and an instrument of punishment; the ''cat-harpings," ''cat-holes," ''cat- rack, " are parts of the rigging, etc; 'cat-lap" is weak tea, a ''cap-nap" a short one" As for dogs, ''whelps" are cleats on the capstan. 'rhe hounds'' is a part of the foremast dog scar IS fold in a sail, dog vane" one of feathers or light bunt- ing, etc, etc. The word Jack" another often used, but in a deprecia- tory way; the jack" is a secondary flag; the 'jack-staff. " short, stubby one; 'jack-tar" a jocular name for a sailor The cook is too important a parsonage to be overlooked, but after interviewing him we must cut short our brief visit. He will give you for 'bub and grub a dish of "scouse" made of bread or powdered sea-bis- cuit or "a lobscouse," having meat in it, with 'bully" ("bouilli'') soup and ''salmagundi, and a dessert of duff" bread pudding) or plum duff, CT perhaps a ''dough-boy," or hard dumpling. -AmericaB Maqdztne.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
PUZZLES FOR DRUGGISTS.
Some of the Queer Orders Received in
 ApOthecary Shops.

 ApOthecary shops.
 While waiting for a horse-car the other night reporter dropped into a drug store. Presently Il little fellow came in with a note which he gave to the clerk. who laughed, did up small box of cachous, put dime in the till and then passed the note over to his customer. It read: Send me something to take that tobacco out of my mouth
 That note," said the clerk, "is from printer, and is a fair sample of the many queer orders we receive. don't t suppose there is any business Tn which a man is asked for more peculiar things than in the drug business. But we generally guess pretty nearly what is wanted, and really get along very we'll"
 If that note had come to me" said the reporter, 'I should have sent the fellow a corkscrew.
 No doubt, but you are not drug gist. What would you send in receipt of this order?" and he handed down from file a note that read:
 Iwant some of that smellin' stuff what goes through your brain.
 Il give it up."
 'I knew at once what was wanted it was ammonia. The note really describes the effect of inhaling it very well. I get note once in awhile, though, that bothers me. Here is one of them:
 Please send me enough stuff to throw up girl four years old.
 1.-The man wanted an emetic. The dose was for a girl aged four years Another note that bothered me was this one:
 Iwant something for caustic.
 '1 was wrapping up some nitrate of silver when all at once it struck me that the order was for a purgative, and asked the boy who brought the note what ailed his father Cramps, he replied, and then 1 was sure. Caustlc should have read costive. A post office employe sent over here one day last winter saying:
 The old woman's got a bad cough and she can't cough; send me something for it. Another sent word that his wife and two little girls were down with the chills and fever, and he wanted the best thing l had that would kill them Of course he meant the chills. A lady sent only to-day for plaster to take the stitches out of her back. , Orders for the essence you put people to sleep with when you're going to cut off their legs call for chloroform or ether. Something for a woman whose appetite is loose on her. means she wants tonic, as she is losing her appetite. Then there are orders for something for sore baby's eyes, a baby's top for nursing bottle, and the like. The greatest, however, of these peculiar orders, is the one which calls for something which forgot the name of, but it's sure cure for dys- pepsia, or any other common ail- ment To such 1 always send our own preparation. N r MaI and Er- press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
HEAT AND ROCK.
The Powerful and Unlimited Metam0rs
 phic Influence of Water.

The Powerful and Unlimited Metam0rs phic Influence of Water.
 That heat exercises a metamorphos- , ing influence on the structures it comes in contact with is a matter of familiar knowledge to every one. The pris- matic texture assumed by the lining of furnaces after long continued heat has long been noticed, while the exam ination of brick or a teacup shows how clays are consolidated or fused when they are "baked." The ''vitria fication" of sand into a glassy mate- rial is another peculiar case in point Where trap or granite dykes have ob- truded themselves the rock on either side is altered in structure, being as a rule rendered more crystalline than the unatered mass. The high tenn perature. however. may be applied, not by contact, as in the case men, toned but by transmission in various ways, such as through the heat of a volcano, or by hot springs, steam or other vapor permeating for long period the strata. Even cold water exercises a certain meta- morphic influence on the rocks through which 1t percolates It is found in more or less minute quantities in all rocks, even the quartz of granite being full of tiny water vesicles. of which only the furnace can deprive it Some granites, indeed, contain in their ordinary state a pint and half in every cubic foot Chalk is also highly absorbent, some forms of it being able to take up half of their bulk without appearing to be moist. Ordin- ary sandstones hold nearly gallon in a cube foot, and according to Ansted, in the best building stones be- longing to the sandstone group from four to five pints of water are con- tained in each cubic foot of the stone. The quantity of water capable of be- ing held by common loose sea-sand amounts to at least two gallons in a cubic foot, while into the layers of sand between the harder rocks so much water is always soaking that the driest seasons do not exhaust these reservoirs. By dissolving out certain chemical constituents in the rock water must, therefore. exercise some alteration on the beds through which it percolates, or in which it stands. This power is, of course. greatly in- tensifed by heat, and this heat, we know. is added 10 it in constantly in- creasing amounts as the water descends towards the interior of the earth. Even at so low te mperature as from 59 to 172 degrees the mineral waters of Plombieres, in the Vosges, have in one week produced zeolites-- minerals consisting of silicates of lime and magnesia-on the Roman brick pavement over which they flow while other experiments by Dlubree were even more strikingly in proof as 10 the remarkable influence which water of high temperature will exercise on substances seemingly the least easily affected. If to heat pressure be add ed, the result will be still more marked. Now, when, besides all these factors, the one of almost unlim- tied length of time has been allowed, the metamorphic influence of water must be very great-From "O'1 Edrth and It's Story"
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
VOLUME XVI.
A BARREN SEASON.

Scarlet sunsets wondrous bright
 Drifted over sea and meadow, But they had mournful gleam,
 And to me were fraught with shadow; And the witching moon at night All in vain hung out her light. All in vain to flying feet
 Silver music softly swept; All in vain the leafy shade
 Ger the snug piazza crept; And the perfumed twilight drew Purple vail athwart the blue. All in vain the penslve walks,
 And the sails where waves were flowing {; All in valn the sweet wild flowers
 By the way their blushes showing; All in vain the toilets fine, With their subtitle Paris shine. All in vain the golden days,
 Scarce a fog breath on the ocean; All in vain the means to fiirt,
 And the fashionable commotion; All in vain the English swell, Though one never looked so well. Twas the slowest and most triste,
 Dreariest of any season, Wasted time; with regret
 Do look back, and with reason. Envy triumphed, dullness ragged, For but once I was engaged. -Susan Hartley SIOett, tp HErDer's Weekly.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
An Important Position.

"Who is that young man that just called on you?" asked the senior mem- Der of the firm.
 He's connected with the Squarup Life Insurance Company.
 ''What does he do?
 'I don't know, but judging from his department should say he must be custodian of the assurance. ."-Mer- chant IrGUeLer.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01

The first glass window in England was one put up in an abbey about 6S0. Glass windows, however, did not be- come general for many hundred years, and as late as 1877 the glass easements at Ainwick Castle, the Duke of North. umberland's seat were regularly taken down when the family were away from home.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
A Valuable Suggestion.

A Dallas lady was giving her daugh- ter instructions in etiquette and how to acquire a husband.
 If a gentleman enters the room, etiquette demands that you arise from your seat and advance few steps to meet him with a bright sunny smile. "
 But suppose no gentleman ever comes into the room?"
 'Then, of course, you don't change your position; you remain just as you are. "-Harper'S MGqazi'ae.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01

Experience teaches that the earlier in an animals age full feeding is re- sorted to the better it is, both for viz orous health and rapid growth. Thus will the best returns be secured. whether the animal be intended for early sale or for raising. Troy Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01

Mrs. John Day. of Oliver County, D. T., discovered a big wildcat kill ing her chickens, and the sight of her bleeding pets nerved her to grab a shotgun and fire a charge at the ami nal. The small shot served only to infuriate the beast, and it attacked the woman who defended herself with an axe, and after desperate fight killed the cat
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01

A young lady giving her experi- ence in dentists chair, said it was hardly as agreeable as box at the opera, but better than being run over by the cars.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01

Polished granite is much more dura- ble than hammered granite. Polish ing the stone prevents the lodging of moisture and foreign particles on iN surface.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01

Kindness is slowed away in the heart like rose-leaves in drawer, to sweeten every object around
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
IN THE CORRALS.
How Cowboys Mark and Brand
 Calves Every Summer.

The Hunt for and CorraIing of the Cattle The Unhappy, Muscular and Trouble some Calf - A Torture Less
 Cruel Than It Seems.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-08

But II man really wants in . modest
way the fun Of steam yachting, wants to
skim over the water whether the wind 10
fair or not, and be sure Of getting home
to dinner on time, he can indulge that
fancy for sum that It is really possible
to talk about without fainting spell. A
steam launch is little open craft in which
the engine is upright and not housed
over. An awning Is usually employed
to shelter passengers from the weather.
Launches from thirty to forty feet long
will carry comfortably . dozen persons,
and there will be plenty Of room for the
storing Of such provisions and utensils as
are required for days outing for the en-.
tire party. A launch twenty-one feet in
length will accommodate in the same
way five or six people very comfortably.
The latter size can be bought for about
$500. There is, Of course, little opportu-
nifty for the expenditure Of money on q
craft Of this kind in ornamentation. The
launch is essentially boat for use.
They frequently attain q considerable
rate Of speed, and they can stand deal
of heavy weather. Almost any man can
learn in few days enough about boilers
and machinery to run launch and thus
dispense with the services of crew and
engineer. A license is required of all
who navigate steam craft, but it is not
difficult matter to. obtain one If the
owner knows the little required about
steam and engines.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-08
AN EARTHLY PARADISE,
Tho Beautiful Dwelling of the Artist, Alma
Tadema--His Pictures.

The Beautiful Dwelling of the Artist, Alma
Tadema--His Pictures.
Among the American ladies' in London is
Mrs. Louisa Chandler Moulton, who writes
I have found the earthly Paradise in st.
Johns Wood-the new house of Alma Ia
dema-that charming house. surrounded by
its beguiling garden with delicious winding
ways. Inside the house Is full of unexpected
charms-a fountain here, a conservatory
there, a graceful arch in one place, q nook
for quiet tete-a-tete in another. CHANGED
on a gala day-some of the Indian princes
were there and brilliant company besides.
There was delicious music in the studio,
where, on a sort of raised dais, stands the
most beautiful piano in all London, decor
ated by Mr.. Alma Tadema himself. A few
Of Tadema's perfect pictures were on view,
and was especially struck by lovely one
OF child, and by portrait. now in progress
of Mrs. Frank Millett-the most fascinating
portrait that could be imagined. 1t is a
wonderful household, this of Alma Tadema
/ wonder if in any other family so much
genius is concentrated? What Mr.. Tadema's
place is as an artist the whole world knows.
His wife, distinctly one of the most beauti-
ful and charming women in London, is also
an admirable artist, and one daughter has
excellent pictures in both the academy and
the Grosvenor, while the other has attained
brilliant success with her first novel, "Love's
Martyr" and is now writing q second
Genius seems to be contagious in this house
hold. The house itself, with its royal-look.
ing staircases of polished brass and with its
original and picturesque architecture, is OF
cessful embodiment of the artists conception.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-08
EDUCATING GIRLS.
Circumspection in After Life Largel, .
Matter Of Training.

Ciroumspeotion in After Life Larsel, .
Matter Of Training.
That girls like bad boys best, and that they
will forsake father and mother, disregard
the advice of their truest friends and bring
desolation to the hearts of all rather than
renounce dissolute fellow are facts too
patent to require proof What is the cause
Of this? In well-to-do families the girls are
spared every effort and deprived of every
opportunity to exercise their will power, and
consequently grow up wholly unprepared to
exercise judgment, decision and action. The
sentimental, poetic, delirious period arrives
The emotional nature, under the stimulus of
awakening faculties, now becomes supreme,
and the girl is wholly under its control.
There should be no difference in girls and
boys life until they are ten years of age.
She on ht to be the equal Of her brother in
out-of-door sports. Until they are fifteen
years of age they ought to have the same
training in school. As much ought to be
expected from her as from him. After that
time their education should differ, according
to their different spheres of action. A true
affection is an anchor to character, and if a
girls life were securely anchored at home
she would not be so easily driven out to sea.
The father, rather than the mother, is or can
be favorite with the daughter. If a father
wishes to fortify his daughter against folly
let him retain her love and confidence,
not simply respect and esteem. but
love. And 10 do this he must feed the
y love of the child until that love ripe,,s
into the genuine affection of woman.
n Many fathers deceive themselves Tuey
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-08

IL may be meat, fish, fowl, vegetables or
Of those thinge mixed. Fastidious per-
sons sometimes ou1ect to lvacki because OF
the mystery surrounding It, They are
wrong, for It generally tastes we'll.
The corn dough-balls were soft, sticky,
cold inside, heavy as lead and little
sour. did not like them. But those
very familiar hens were so fond of them
that they flew up on the table constantly
and pecked pieces from beside our plates
and even out of our hands. One hen had
quite comical appearance. To divert
her attention from the subject of "set-
ting" they had poked Q long tail-feather
through her nostrils. 1t stuck out three
or four inches on each side of her beak,
and looking at II seemed to have made
her cross-eyed, so that when she snapped
at dough-ball she was liable to dip into
The san cochs and 60 away hurriedly,
shouting Fire r in chicken lingo, only to
return for another attempt two minutes
later. The best bread we had was plan
tains, baked without their skins in the
ashes-not at all bad substitute.
After dinner we had delicious coffee,
strong and fine. The natives buy their
coffee unhulled generally, fresh from
the plantations, half roast it, club off
the hulls, reroast and grind it, and no.
body anywhere has any better coffee.
While we slipped the fragrant decoction
couple of wild "paraonlatas." or Ven
ezuelan mocking-birds, perched upon
the branches overhead, unheeding the
noise below, sang exquisitely.
Pepe, a humble servitor Of the family,
brought up from a little bay about an
eighth of mile distant q barrow full of
>hellfish of all conceivable sorts, eizes,
been forty or fifty varieties, from little
up to huge horny conchs as big as
mans head. All were dumped together
into large kettle and boiled for nearly
an hour, while we smoked and slipped
coffee. Then they were heaped upon
the table before us and we picked and
poked out the contents of the shells
with pins, sticks, forks and knives,
occasionally smashing the ones that
were hard to get at 1t was i'm
possible to determine which of them
were most unspeakably vile. Each
in turn seemed more utterly execrable
than those that had preceded it. Per-
haps nice discriminating palate might
have awarded to the pearl oysters the
palm for intoleratle badness, for they
combined the extreme saltiness, bitter
ness, iodine smell, sandiness and flabbi-
ness that were the severally distinguish
ing characteristics of number of others.
As for the conchs, they seemed to be
made of India rubber, and could by no
possibility be chewed. The natives said
that few days boiling would soften
them somewhat.
The finale of our tropical feast was
huge pile Of shaved cocoa-nut meats
rolled in melted brown sugar, and thor
oughly coated with it in cooling-exces
sively and cloyingly sweet, but pleas
antly favored. And we had new rum
j. III. CoNNELLY.